Great War in Ten Contested Questions by Hazel Flynn
$27.99 AUD
Category: War
100 years after the Great War, why are we still arguing about how it began, who opposed it, why so many Chinese and Africans joined and how the medical profession rose to the challenge - among other things? As we mark the centenary of the Great War, critical questions remain in contention; how the confl ...Show more
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
$33.00 AUD
Category: History
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... 'There's something that hits the mark on every page' - Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of wa ...Show more
Berlin Now - The City After the Wall by Peter Schneider
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibran ...Show more
A Kim Jong-Il Production - The Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History by Paul Fischer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
This is a Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer - love, films and kidnapping in North Korea, the world's wildest regime. Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were nothing compared to Ho ...Show more
Defending Gallipoli the Turkish Story by Harvey Broadbent
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
Based on exclusive access to Turkish archives, Defending Gallipoli reveals how the Turks reacted and defended Gallipoli. Author and Turkish language expert Harvey Broadbent spent five years translating everything from official records to soldiers' personal diaries and letters to unearth the Turkish stor ...Show more
Magna Carta by David Starkey
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
2015 is the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, which took place in 1215. In this new book published in celebration of that event, eminent historian David Starkey explores the many aspects of Magna Carta and its relevance today. Starkey reveals: The historical background of Magna Carta ...Show more
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe were at ...Show more
Naturalists in Paradise Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon by John Hemming
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
One hundred and fifty years ago, the young naturalists Alfred Wallace, Henry Walter Bates, and Richard Spruce were on a journey. Their destination, Amazonia—the world's largest tropical forest with the greatest river system and richest ecosystem—was then an almost-undiscovered environment to Western exp ...Show more
Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's War Graves by David Crane
$19.99 AUD
Category: War
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story behind the building of the First World War cemeteries. In the wake of the First World War, Britain and her Empire faced the enormous question of how to bury the dead. Critically-acclaimed author David Crane d ...Show more
The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews by Bernard Wasserstein
$55.95 AUD
Category: European
In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews. Was this middle aged Jewish woman, burdened with su ...Show more